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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Edible photos are becoming increasingly popular with bakeries these days, but we should keep in mind that this is not a cheap technology. In fact, it's quite expensive, what with the special printers, edible ink, and, of course, the moon dust and mithril-coated unicorn hair they use for paper.

so much to critique...the obvious re-use of the stupid printer test (who actually does that, anyway?)the border that covers the writingthe writing?!?!?!what does it say? and in what language?the shoelace-like braid of black icingepic fail

See now, this is why the one time I used an edible image (no WAY was I trying to make Strawberry Shortcake) - I ordered one of those assembly production kinds. And also why I try to make all of our decorated cakes myself. I'm perfectly happy with the grocery's triple fudge cake, but I know the people who work there - no way am I giving them free rein to make my occasion cakes!

for my birthday this year, my 7 year old sister made a book of cheese she wrote as Stewart the minion from Despicable Me. on the back she wrote "alien message: translate it!" on the tester sheet of our new printer. it was pretty funny.

Well, given (a) the horrible writing and (b) that the wreckerator thought re-using the test sheet was OK, I think EPP here was appropriate. After all, think how much worse the cake would have been had they attempted the design free-hand...

I have to admit that if I were to stumble upon a wreck like this in a local store, I would purchase it (after the required 5 minutes of uncontrollable laughter) to appease the warped sense of humor which my family possesses. It's classic.

vw: balisi - italian for ballsy, which is what this wreckreator was in producing this thing for sale.

Good God, people. If you're going to be so cheap as to re-use the test sheet, at LEAST flip it over and use the back. Oh and print your design the right size so that you don't have to cut off the word "Spiderman" on the spiderman cake. Oh and also don't gouge out any eyes. Scares the kiddies.

I just got a new all-in-one printer/scanner by HP for christmas. Whenever I put in a new ink cart, it automatically spits out that same test page. So far I haven't found a way to make that stop, and I've accidentally printed on "good" paper twice. My guess is that someone loaded up the edible paper, put in a new ink cart, and that's what came out. This is no way excuses continuing to make the cake with it - just saying I can see how it would have happened in the first place.

Now that we've established that the writing on the cake is Turkish: The whole idea of this is birdbrained and I would agree Spiderman's eyes are missing. Better for him not to see how this cake turned out to be a turkey!

I honestly hope that the person that ordered that cake took the picture before they chased the wreckerator around the room with it. Honestly how much lazier can they get?? I am almost afraid to ponder that.. lol.

Having read the comments, I now must make a second one. John's use of the word "poopsocks" just made me fall over sideways laughing until I wheezed and my eyes watered. This word simply must become part of my vocabulary.

Incidentally, do you know how to go about extracting the mithril back out of the paper? It's hard to find a reliable source.

I work with this stuff and it only costs about a dollar a sheet. Too expensive to use as a test sheet and too cheap to reuse on someones poor cake. It's not the decorator's fault that they make these cakes, that said, they should at least learn how to use the system correctly. Wrecked is wrecked. Poopsocks!

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